List of operas performed at the Wexford Festival explained

Below is a complete list of the operas performed by Wexford Festival Opera since its inception in . Only complete operas presented on stage with orchestra are listed; over the years, the Festival has also presented programmes of scenes from operas and one-act operas with piano accompaniment.

Nearly all the performances listed took place at the Theatre Royal, Wexford or (from 2008) at the new Wexford Opera House. After the demolition of the Theatre Royal and during the building of the Opera House, the 2006 season operas were performed at the Dún Mhuire Theatre in Wexford, and the 2007 operas at Johnstown Castle, a few kilometres outside the town.

The Festival has been led by the following Artistic Directors:

List

Year[1] Opera!ComposerLanguage[2] !Premiere
of opera
Conductor!DirectorDesigner[3] !Singers
1951 The Rose of Castille English 1857 Dermot O'Hara Murray Dickie
1952 L'elisir d'amore Italian 1832 Dermot O'Hara Joseph Carl Nicola Monti
1953 Don Pasquale Donizetti Italian 1843 Peter Ebert Joseph Carl Afro Poli,
Nicola Monti
1954 La sonnambula Italian 1831 Bryan Balkwill Peter Ebert Joseph Carl Marilyn Cotlow,
Nicola Monti
1955 Der Wildschütz German 1842 Peter Rice Heather Harper, Thomas Hemsley
1955 Manon Lescaut Italian 1893 Bryan Balkwill Anthony Besch Peter Rice
1956 La cenerentola Italian 1817 Bryan Balkwill Peter Ebert Joseph Carl Barbara Howitt, April Cantelo, Patricia Kern,
Nicola Monti
1956 Martha German 1847 Bryan Balkwill Peter Potter Joseph Carl Josef Traxel, Constance Shacklock
1957 La figlia del reggimento Donizetti French[4] 1840 Bryan Balkwill Peter Ebert Joseph Carl Graziella Sciutti, Geraint Evans, Patricia Kern
1957 L'Italiana in Algeri Rossini Italian 1813 Bryan Balkwill Peter Ebert Joseph Carl Barbara Howitt, Paolo Montarsolo, April Cantelo, Patricia Kern
1958 Anna Bolena Donizetti Italian 1830 Peter Potter Michael Eve Fiorenza Cossotto, Patricia Kern
1958 I due Foscari Italian 1844 Bryan Balkwill Peter Ebert Reginald Woolley Mariella Angioletti
1959 La gazza ladra Rossini Italian 1817 Peter Potter Janet Baker, Mariella Adani, Elizabeth Bainbridge,
Nicola Monti
1959 Aroldo Verdi Italian 1857 Frans Boerlage Aldo Protti, Elizabeth Bainbridge
1960 No Festival – theatre closed for reconstruction
1961 Ernani Verdi Italian 1844 Bryan Balkwill Peter Ebert Reginald Woolley Maria Angioletti, Ragnar Ulfung, Lino Puglisi
1961 Mireille French 1864 Michael Moores Anthony Besch Osbert Lancaster Andréa Guiot, Alain Vanzo, Jean Borthayre, Laura Sarti
1962 L'amico Fritz Italian 1891 Antonio Tonini Michael Hadjimischev Reginald Woolley Bernadette Greevy, Nicola Monti
1962 I puritani Bellini Italian 1835 Gunnar Staern Peter Ebert Reginald Woolley Mirella Freni
1963 Don Pasquale Donizetti Italian 1843 Michael Hadjimischev Anna Hadjimischev Margherita Rinaldi
1963 La Gioconda Italian 1876 Gunnar Staern Peter Ebert Reginald Woolley Enriqueta Tarres, Anna Reynolds, Giuseppe Gismondo
1963 The Siege of Rochelle Balfe English 1835 (piano duo accompaniment) Douglas Craig Reginald Wooley Patricia McCarry, Franco Ventriglia, Anna Reynolds[5]
1964 Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti Italian 1835 Antonio de Almeida Michel Crochot Reginald Woolley Giacomo Aragall
1964 Il conte Ory Rossini French1828 Gunnar Staern Peter Ebert Reginald Woolley Alberta Valentini, Pietro Bottazzo
1964 Much Ado About Nothing English 1901 Courtney Kenny Peter Ebert Reginald Woolley Soo Bee Lee
1965 Don Quichotte French 1910 Reginald Woolley Miroslav Čangalović, Ivana Mixová
1965 La traviata Verdi Italian 1853 Gunnar Staern Peter Ebert Reginald Woolley Philip Langridge
1965 La finta giardiniera Italian 1775 Gunnar Staern Peter Ebert Judith Ebert Mattiwilda Dobbs, Birgit Nordin, Ugo Benelli
1966 Fra Diavolo French 1830 Dennis Maunder Reginald Woolley Alberta Valentini, Anna Reynolds, Ugo Benelli, Nigel Douglas
1966 Lucrezia Borgia Donizetti Italian 1833 Albert Rosen Reginald Woolley Virginia Gordoni
1967 Otello Rossini Italian 1816 Albert Rosen Anthony Besch
1967 Roméo et Juliette Gounod French 1867 Patrick Murray Richard Van Allan, Anne Pashley, Pamela Bowden, Henri Gui
1968 La clemenza di Tito Mozart Italian 1791 Theodore Gushlbauer Michael Waller
1968 La jolie fille de Perth French 1867 David Lloyd-Jones Pauline Grant Robin Archer Roger Soyer, Henri Gui, John Wakefield, Isabel Garcisanz
1968 L'equivoco stravagante Rossini Italian 1811 John Cox John Stoddart Richard Van Allan
1969 L'infedeltà delusa Italian 1773 David Lloyd-Jones John Copley John Fraser Eugenia Ratti,
Jill Gomez, Ugo Benelli, Alexander Young
1969 Luisa Miller Verdi Italian 1849 Myer Fredman John Cox Bernard Culshaw Bernadette Greevy
1970 Albert Herring English 1947 Michael Geliot Jane Bond Alan Opie, Enid Hartle
1970 Lakmé French 1833 David Lloyd-Jones Michael Hadjimischev John Fraser Christiane Eda-Pierre, Jacques Mars
1970 L'inganno felice[6] Rossini Italian 1812 David Atherton Patrick Libby John Fraser Jill Gomez, Ugo Benelli
1970 Il giovedi grasso Donizetti Italian 1829 David Atherton Patrick Libby John Fraser Jill Gomez
1971 Les pêcheurs de perles Bizet French 1863 Guy Barbier Michael Geliot Roger Butlin/
Jane Bond
Christiane Eda-Pierre
1971 La rondine Puccini Italian 1917 Myer Fredman Anthony Besch John Stoddart June Card, Alexander Oliver, Thomas Lawlor
1971 Il re pastore Mozart Italian 1775 John Cox Elizabeth Dalton Norma Burrowes, Anne Pashley
1972 Oberon English 1826 Kenneth Montgomery Anthony Besch Adam Pollock John Fryatt
1972 Il pirata Bellini Italian 1827 Leone Magiera Michael Geliot Jane Venables Christiane Eda-Pierre
1972 Káťa Kabanová Czech 1921 Albert Rosen Ivo Žídek
1973 Ivan Susanin Russian 1836 Guy Barbier Michael Hadjimischev Sue Blane Matti Salminen, Dennis O'Neill
1973 The Gambler Russian[7] 1929 Albert Rosen David Pountney Maria Björnson Joseph Rouleau, Dennis O'Neill, Richard Stilgoe
1973 L'ajo nell'imbarazzo Donizetti Italian 1824 Kenneth Montgomery Patrick Libby Adam Pollock Richard Stilgoe
1974 Medea in Corinto Italian 1813 Roderick Bryden Adrian Slack David Fielding Margreta Elkins
1974 Thaïs Massenet French 1894 Jeremy Sutcliffe John Fraser Ann Murray,
Jill Gomez
1974 Der Barbier von Bagdad German 1858 Albert Rosen Wolf Siegfried Wagner Dacre Punt/
Alex Reid
1975 Eritrea Italian 1652 Ian Strasfogel Franco Colavecchia Paul Esswood, Philip Langridge, Ann Murray
1975 Le roi d'Ys French 1888 Jean Perrison Bernard Arnould Gillian Knight
1975 La pietra del paragone Rossini Italian 1812 Roderick Bryden Adrian Slack Eric Garrett
1976 Giovanna d'Arco Verdi Italian 1845 Jeremy Sutcliffe David Fielding
1976 The Merry Wives of Windsor German1849 Leonard Hancock Patrick Libby Adam Pollock Michael Langdon, Alan Opie
1976 The Turn of the Screw Britten English 1954 Albert Rosen Adrian Slack David Fielding Jane Manning
1977 Hérodiade Massenet French 1882 Henri Gallois Roger Butlin Malcolm Donnelly, Bernadette Greevy, Bonaventura Bottone
1977 Orfeo ed Euridice Italian 1762 Jane Glover Wolf Siegfried Wagner Dacre Punt/
Alex Reid
Jennifer Smith
1977 Il maestro di cappella[8] Italian 1793? James Judd Tim Reed Sesto Bruscantini
1977 La serva e l'ussero Italian 1836 James Judd Sesto Bruscantini Tim Reed Sesto Bruscantini, Bonaventura Bottone
1977 La serva padrona Italian 1733 James Judd Sesto Bruscantini Tim Reed Sesto Bruscantini
1978 Tiefland German 1903 Henri Gallois Julian Hope Roger Butlin Malcolm Donnelly, Mani Mekler, Bonaventura Bottone
1978 Il mondo della luna Haydn Italian 1777 James Judd Adrian Slack Axel Bartz Helen Dixon, Elaine Linstedt, Emily Hastings, Dennis O'Neill, Alan Watt, Ugo Benelli, Gianni Socci
1978 The Two Widows Czech 1874 Albert Rosen David Pountney Sue Blane Felicity Palmer, Elizabeth Gale, Robert White, Joseph Rouleau, Bonaventura Bottone, Dinah Harris
1979 L'amore dei tre re Italian 1913 Stewart Trotter Douglas Heap Bonaventura Bottone
1979 La vestale Italian 1807 Julian Hope Roger Butlin/
Sue Blane
1979 Crispino e la comare Italian 1850 James Judd Sesto Bruscantini Tim Reed Lucia Aliberti,
Sesto Bruscantini, Bonaventura Bottone
1980 Edgar Puccini Italian 1889 Robin Stapleton Roger Chapman Douglas Heap/
Jane Law
1980 Orlando Italian 1733 James Judd Wilfred Judd Kandis Cook/
Alison Meacher
Lesley Garrett, Bernadette Greevy
1980 Of Mice and Men English 1970 Stewart Trotter John Cervenka
1981 I gioielli della Madonna Italian 1911 Colman Pearce Russell Craig
1981 Zaide Mozart German 1780[9] Timothy Tyrrel Dermot Hayes Neil Mackie,
Lesley Garrett, Ulrik Cold
1981 Un giorno di regno Verdi Italian 1840 James Judd Sesto Bruscantini Tim Reed Angela Feeney, Lucia Aliberti,
Sesto Bruscantini
1982 Sakùntala Italian 1921 Albert Rosen David Fielding
1982 L'isola disabitata Haydn Italian 1779 Newell Jenkins Guus Mostart John Otto Bernadette Greevy
1982 Grisélidis Massenet French 1891 Robin Stapleton Ariane Gastambide Sergei Leiferkus
1983 Hans Heiling German 1833 Albert Rosen Steven Pimlott David Fielding Sergei Leiferkus
1983 La vedova scaltra Wolf-Ferrari Italian 1931 Charles Hamilton Tim Reed Jill Gomez
1983 Linda di Chamounix Donizetti Italian 1842 Gabriele Bellini Julian Hope Annena Stubbs Lucia Aliberti
1984 Le jongleur de Notre-Dame Massenet French 1902 Yan Pascal Tortelier Johan Engels Patrick Power, Sergei Leiferkus
1984 Le astuzie femminili Cimarosa Italian 1794 Andy Hinds John McMurray Susanna Rigacci, Raúl Giménez
1984 The Kiss Smetana Czech 1876 Albert Rosen Bernard Culshaw John Ayldon
1985 Ariodante Handel Italian 1735 Guus Mostart John Otto Raúl Giménez, Bernadette Greevy
1985 Rise and Fall of the City of MahagonnyGerman 1930 Simon Joly John Ormerod
1985 La Wally Italian 1892 Albert Rosen Stefan Janski Marie-Jeanne Lecca
1986 Königskinder German 1897 Albert Rosen Michael McCaffrey Di Seymour William Lewis, Sergei Leiferkus
1986 Tancredi Rossini Italian 1813 Michael Beauchamp William Passmore Bruce Ford
1986 Mignon French 1866 Yan Pascal Tortelier Beverly Hoch
1987 Cendrillon Massenet French 1899 Stéphane Cardon Seamus McGrenera Tim Reed
1987 La cena delle beffe Italian 1924 Albert Rosen Patrick Mason Alessandra Marc, Fabio Armiliato, Miriam Gauci, Mikhail Krutikov
1987 La straniera Bellini Italian 1829 Russell Craig Mikhail Svetlov (Krutikov)
1988 The Devil and Kate Czech 1899 Albert Rosen
1988 Don Giovanni Tenorio Italian 1787 Simon Joly Patrick Mason Joe Vaněk Norman Bailey
1988 Turandot Italian 1917 Simon Joly Patrick Mason Joe Vaněk Norman Bailey
1988 Elisa e Claudio Italian 1821 Marco Guidarini David Fielding David Fielding/
Bettina Munzer
1989 Der Templer und die Jüdin Marschner German 1829 Albert Rosen Francesca Zambello Bettina Munzer William Stone, Greer Grimsley
1989 Mitridate, re di Ponto Mozart Italian 1770 Marco Guidarini Lucy Bailey Peter J Davison Patricia Rozario
1989 The Duenna Prokofiev Russian 1946 František Vajnar Patrick Mason Joe Vaněk Spiro Malas, Thomas Lawlor
1990 Zazà Italian 1900 Bruno Rigacci Jamie Hayes Ruari Murchison Wojciech Drabowicz
1990 The Rising of the Moon English 1970 Simon Joly Richard Aylwin Elizabeth Bainbridge, Thomas Lawlor
1990 La dame blanche French 1825 Emmanuel Joel Jean-Claude Auvray Kenny MacLellan Gillian Knight
1991 L'assedio di Calais Donizetti Italian 1836 Francesca Zambello Frank Kelley
1991 Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung German 1874 John Lloyd-Davies John Lloyd-Davies Stefan Margita, Frank Kelley
1991 La rencontre imprévue Gluck French 1764 Jamie Hayes Ruari Merchison Paul Austin Kelly
1992 Il piccolo Marat Mascagni Italian 1921 Albert Rosen
1992 Gli equivoci Italian[10] 1786 Russell Craig Korliss Uecker
1992 Der Vampyr Marschner German 1827 Guido Johannes Rumstadt Jean-Claude Auvray Kenny MacLellan
1993 Cherevichki Russian 1885 Alexander Anissimov Francesca Zambello Bruno Schwengl Vladimir Matorin
1993 Il barbiere di Siviglia Italian 1782 Carla Delfrate Lucy Bailey
1993 Zampa French 1831 Tim Hopkins Charles Edwards Mary Mills
1994 The Demon Russian 1875 Alexander Anissimov Yefim Maizel Paul Steinberg
1994 La bohème Leoncavallo Italian 1897 Albert Rosen Reto Nickler Russell Craig
1994 Das Liebesverbot German 1836 Dieter Kaegi Bruno Schwengel Gidon Saks
1995 Iris Mascagni Italian 1898 Bruno Aprea Lorenzo Mariani Maurizio Balò
1995 Saffo Italian 1840 Beni Montressor Beni Montressor
1995 Mayskaya noch' Russian 1880 Stephen Medcalf Francis O'Connor Vladimir Matorin
1996 Parisina Donizetti Italian 1833 Maurizio Benini Stefano Vizioli Ulderico Manani Alexandrina Pendatchanska
1996 L'étoile du nord French 1854 Vladimir Jurowski Denis Krief Denis Krief Juan Diego Flórez, Elizabeth Futral
1996 Šárka Czech 1897 David Agler Inga Levant Charles Edwards /
Brigitte Reiffenstuel
1997 Rusalka Russian 1856 Dimitri Bertmann Igor Nezny/
Tatyana Tulubieva
Alessandro Safina
1997 La fiamma Italian 1934 Enrique Mazzola Franco Ripa di Meana Edoardo Sanchi
1997 Elena da Feltre Mercadante Italian 1839 Maurizio Benini Sonja Frisell Marouan Dib
1998 Fosca Italian 1873 Alexander Anissimov Giovanni Agostinucci Giovanni Agostinucci Fernando del Valle
1998 Šarlatán Czech 1938 Israel Yinon John Abulafia Fotini Dimou
1998 I cavalieri di Ekebù Italian 1925 Daniele Callegari Gabriele Vacis Francesco Calcagnini/
Hilary Lewis
Joseph Calleja
1999 Die Königin von Saba German 1875 Patrick Mailler Massimo Gasparon
1999 Straszny Dwór Polish 1865 David Jones Michal Znaniecki Francesco Calcagnini
1999 Siberia Giordano Italian 1903 Daniele Callegari Fabio Sparvoli Giorgio Ricchelli/
Alessandra Torelli
2000 Orleanskaya deva Tchaikovsky Russian 1881 Daniele Callegari Massimo Gasparon Massimo Gasparon Ermonela Jaho
2000 Si j'étais roi French 1852 David Agler Renaud Doucet André Barbe /
Huguette Barbe-Blanchard
Joseph Calleja
2000 Conchita Zandonai Italian 1911 Marcello Rota Corrado d'Elia Fabrizio Palla /
Steve Almerighi
2001 Alessandro Stradella Flotow German 1844 Daniele Callegari Thomas de Mallet Burgess Julian McGowan
2001 Jakobín Dvořák Czech 1889 Alexandre Voloschuk Michael McCaffery Paul Edwards Markus Werba
2001 Sapho Massenet French 1897 Jean-Luc Tingaud Fabio Sparvoli Giorgio Ricchelli /
Alessandra Torella
Ermonela Jaho
2002 Mirandolina Italian 1959 Kevin Knight
2002 Il giuramento Mercadante Italian 1837 Paolo Arrivabeni Joseph Rochlitz Lucia Goj /
Silvia Aymonino
2002 Manon Lescaut Auber French 1856 Jean-Luc Tingaud Jean-Phillippe Clarac /
Olivier Deloeuil
Greco Ermonela Jaho
2003 Švanda dudák Czech 1927 Julian Reynolds Robin Rawstorne
2003 Die drei Pintos Weber German 1888[11] Paolo Arrivabeni Michal Znaniecki Kevin Knight
2003 María del Carmen Spanish 1898 Max Bragado-Darman Cristiana Aureggi/
Violeta Rojas
2004 Prinzessin Brambilla German 1931[12] Danieli Belardinelli Rosetta Cucchi Maria Rosaria Tartaglia
2004 La vestale Mercadante Italian 1840 Paolo Arrivabeni Thomas de Mallet Burgess Jamie Vartan
2004 Eva Czech 1899 Paul Curran Paul Edwards
2005 Pénélope French 1913 Jean-Luc Tingaud Renaud Doucet André Barbe Paul Carey Jones
2005 Susannah Floyd English 1955 Conor Murphy Simon O'Neill
2005 Maria di Rohan Donizetti Italian 1843 Roberto Polastri Charles Edwards Charles Edwards /
Brigitte Rieffenstuel
Eglise Gutiérrez, James Westman
2006 Don Gregorio[13] Donizetti Italian 1826 Roberto Recchia Ferdia Murphy
2006 Transformations English 1973 David Agler Michael Barker-Caven Joe Vaněk
2007 Arlecchino[14] Busoni German 1917 David Agler Italo Grassi
2007 Rusalka Dvořák Czech 1901 Dmitri Jurowski Lee Blakeley Joe Vaněk Kateřina Jalovcová
Bryan Hymel
2007 Der Silbersee German[15] 1933 Timothy Redmond Jason Southgate Nigel Richards, Simon Gleeson, Anita Dobson,
Paul Carey Jones
2008 Tutti in maschera Italian 1856 Leonardo Vordoni Rosetta Cucchi Federico Bianchi/
Claudia Pernigotti
2008 Snegurochka Russian 1882 Dmitri Jurowski John Fulljames Dick Bird Natela Nicoli, Kateřina Jalovcová
2008 The Mines of Sulphur English 1965 Michael Barker-Caven Joe Vaněk Krisztina Szabó
2009 Maria Padilla Italian 1841 David Agler Marco Gandini Mauro Tinti
2009 The Ghosts of Versailles English 1991 James Robinson Allen Moyer /
James Schuette
Krisztina Szabó
2009 Une éducation manquée French 1879 Christopher Franklin Roberto Recchia Lorenzo Cutùli /
Claudia Pernigotti
2009 La cambiale di matrimonio Italian 1810 Christopher Franklin Roberto Recchia Lorenzo Cutùli /
Claudia Pernigotti
2010 Virginia Italian 1866 Carlos Izcaray Kevin Newbury Allen Moyer Angela Meade, Bruno Ribiero, Hugh Russell, Ivan Magri, John Matthew Myers, Marcella Walsh, Gianluca Buratto
2010 The Golden Ticket English 2010 Timothy Redmond James Robinson Bruno Schwengl /
Martin Pakledinaz
Frank Kelley, Kiera Duffy, Wayne Tigges, Bradley Smoak, Abigail Nims, Owen Gilhooly, Noah Stewart
2010 Hubička Czech 1876 Jaroslav Kyzlink Michael Gieleta James Macnamara /
Fabio Toblini
2011 Maria Polish 1906 Tomasz Tokarczyk Michael Gieleta James Macnamara /
Fabio Toblini
Daria Masiero, Rafał Bartminski
2011 Gianni di Parigi Italian1839 Federico Grazzini Tiziano Santi /
Valeria Donata Betella
Edgardo Rocha, Zuzana Marková
2011 La cour de CélimèneFrench 1855 Carlos Izcaray Paul Edwards Luigi Boccia, Claudia Boyle, John Molloy
2012 L'ArlesianaItalian1897 David Angus Rosetta CucchiSarah Bacon /
Claudia Pernigotti
Annunziata Vestri, Dimitry Golovnin
2012 Le roi malgré luiFrench1887 Jean-Luc Tingaud Thaddeus StrassbergerKevin Knight /
Mattie Ulrich
Luigi Boccia, Liam Bonner, Mathias Vidal
2012 A Village Romeo and JulietEnglish1907 Rory Macdonald Stephen MedcalfJamie Vartan John Bellemer, Jessica Muirhead
2013 Il cappello di paglia di Firenze Italian 1955 Andrea Cigni Lorenze Cutùli Fillipo Adami
2013 La Navarraise French 1894 David Agler Renaud Doucet André Barbe Nora Sourouzian, Philippe Do
2013 Thérèse French 1907 David Agler Renaud Doucet André Barbe Nora Sourouzian, Philippe Do, Brian Mulligan
2013 Cristina, regina di Svezia Italian 1849 Jamie Vartan Helena Dix
2014 Salomé French 1908 David Angus Rosetta Cucchi Tiziano Santi / Claudia Pernigotti Na'ma Goldman, Nora Sourouzian, Scot Wilde, Igor Golovatenko
2014 Don Bucefalo Italian 1847 Sergio Alapont Filippo Fontana, Marie-Eve Munger, Jennifer Davis
2014 Silent Night English, French, German 2011 Michael Christie Erhard Rom / Vita Tzykun Quentin Hayes, Chad Johnson
2015 Koanga English 1896 Stephen Barlow Michael Gieleta James Macnamara Norman Garrett, Nozuko Teto, Christopher Robertson, Rachel Croash
2015 Guglielmo Ratcliff Italian 1895 Fabio Ceresa Tiziano Santi Angelo Villari, Mariangela Sicilia, Annunziata Vestri, David Stout, Quentin Hayes, Sarah Richmond
2015 Le pré aux clercs French 1832 Marie-Eve Munger, Marie Lenormand, Magali Simard-Galdès, Dominique Côté
2016 Barber English 1958 Timothy Myers Rodula Gaitanou Cordelia Chisholm Claire Rutter, Rosalind Plowright
2016 Maria de Rudenz Donizetti Italian 1838 Andrew Greenwood Fabio Ceresa Gary McCann Gilda Fiume
2016 Herculanum Félicien David French 1859 Jean-Luc Tingaud Stephen Medcalf Andrew Haji, Olga Busuioc, Daniela Pini[16]
2017 Medea Cherubini Italian 1797 Stephen Barlow Lise Davidsen, Raffaella Lupinacci, Adam Lau, Ruth Iniesta[17]
2017 Margherita Jacopo Foroni Italian 1848 Michael Sturm Giuliana Gianfaldoni, Alessandra Volpe, Matteo d’Apolito, Andrew Stenson, Yuriy Yurchuk
2017 Risurrezione Franco Alfano Italian 1904 Francesco Cilluffo Rosetta Cucchi Tiziano Santi Gerard Schneider, Anne Sophie Duprels
2018 L'oracolo & Mala vita Italian 1905 & 1892 Joo Won Kang, Elisabetta Farris, Sergio Escobar[18]
2018 Il bravo Mercadante Italian 1839 Jonathan Brandani Ekaterina Bakanova, Yasko Sato, Rubens Pelizzari and Alessandro Luciano
2018 Dinner at Eight English 2017  David Agler  Tomer Zvulun  Alexander Dodge  Mary Dunleavy, Susannah Biller, Brenda Harris
2019 Stanford
2019 Don Quichotte Massenet French1904Timothy MyersRodula GaitanoutakisAigul Akhmetshina, Goderdzi Janelidze, Olafur Sigurdarson
2019 Dorilla in Tempe Italian 1726 Andrea Marchiol Fabio Ceresa Massimo Checchetto
2019 La Cucina Italian 2019 Michele Spotti Rosetta Cucchi Tiziano Santi
2021Ein WintermärchenGoldmarkGerman1908Marcus BoschDmitry BertmanAstrid JansonSergei Radchenko; Sophie Gordeladeze; Deanna Breiwick
2021Le songe d'une nuit d'étéThomasFrench1850Guillaume TourniaireWalter Le MalsTiziano Santi; Gabrielle MayerHasmik Torosyan; Valentina Mastrangelo
2021EdmeaItalian1886Francesco CilluffoJulia BurbachAnne Sophie Durprels; Ivan Shcherbatykh, Raffaele Abete
2021I Capuleti e i MontecchiBelliniItalian1830Giuseppe MontesanoConor HanrattyAnna Brady; Jade Phoenix
2022La tempestaHalévyItalian1850Francesco CilluffoRoberto CatalanoNikolay Zemlianskikh; Hila Baggio; Giorgi Manoshvili; Jade Phoenix
2022Lalla-RoukhFélicien DavidFrench1862Steven WhiteOrpha PhelanGabrielle Philiponet;Pablo Bemsch
2022ArmidaAntonín DvořákCzech1904Norbert BaxaHartmut SchorghoferJozef Benci;Jennifer Davis
2022CinderellaAlma DeutscherEnglish2015Andrew SynnottDavide GasparroMegan O'Neill; Michael Bell; Richard Shaffrey; Ami Hewitt; Corina Ignat
2022The MasterAlberto CarusoEnglish2022Thomas Birch; James Wafer; Annabella-Vesela Ellis
2022The Spectre KnightAlfred CellierEnglish1878Thomas Bennett; Monwabisi Lindi; Matthew Nuttall
2023Zoraida di GranataDonizettiItalian1822Diego Ceretta
2023L'aube rougeCamille ErlangerFrench1911Guillaume Tourniaire
2023La ciociaraMarco TutinoItalian2015Francesco Cilluffo
2024Le maschere Pietro MascagniItalian2015Francesco CilluffoStefano RicciStefano Ricci

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Notes and References

  1. Year that the opera was performed during the Wexford Festival
  2. Language used in the opera's original libretto
  3. Where two designers are credited, the first-named designed the set and the second designed the costumes
  4. Performed in Italian translation
  5. Porter, Andrew. The Wexford Festival. Opera, December 1963, Vol.14 No.12 pp. 828–831.
  6. Performed as part of a double bill.
  7. Performed in English translation
  8. Performed as part of a triple bill
  9. Abandoned by Mozart; date is that of composition.
  10. Performed in an English translation by Arthur Jacobs
  11. Left incomplete by Weber in 1821; completed by Gustav Mahler, who expanded surviving sketches and added music from other works by Weber
  12. Revised version: first version premiered in 1909
  13. A revised version of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
  14. Performed as part of a double bill with Pulcinella.
  15. Performed in an English translation by Rory Bremner
  16. Reports on the 2016 festival by Geoffrey Wheatcroft and John Allison in Opera January 2017, pp. 53–57. In addition, Riders to the Sea, Il campanello, and The Bear were staged with piano accompaniment.
  17. Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. Report from Wexford. Opera, January 2018, Vol 69 No.1, pp. 37–39.
  18. [Geoffrey Wheatcroft|Wheatcroft, Geoffrey]